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Nintendo’s Super Mario Run, the portly plumber’s first official outing on mobile devices, has been downloaded over 78 million times. Of those 78 million, 40 million were in the first four days of the game hitting the iOS App Store, while five percent (roughly four million people) paid the one-off £8/$10 fee to unlock the full version.

Super Mario Run‘s success has transformed Nintendo’s mobile/IP licensing business, generating revenues of ¥10.6 billion (£75 million, $93 million) for the nine-month period ending December 31 2016, compared to ¥4.4 billion (£30 million, $38 million) in 2015, according to its latest financial report. Super Mario Run has since fallen off the App Store charts, but is due for release on Android in March.

Despite Nintendo’s promising start in mobile, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima told reporters that Super Mario Run‘s conversion rate (that is, the number of players that opted to pay for the full version) fell below the company’s double digit expectations. Hopes are high for its next mobile game, Fire Emblem Heroes, which is due for release on Android and iOS on February 2. Its Animal Crossing mobile game has now been pushed back to “the next fiscal year,” which could be as late as March 2018.

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He joined as the twelfth actor to play The Doctor when he replaced Matt Smith in 2013, during the show’s 50th anniversary year. It also means that Capaldi’s exit will coincide with showrunner Steven Moffat’s departure from Doctor Who. Moffat said last year that the tenth series of the time-bending drama, which is set to air in the UK on April 15, will be his last.

Capaldi—when confirming his exit on BBC Radio 2—said that his final episodes would reveal “a darker thing that emerges at the end.” He added: “I suppose the big thing about it, for me, is that it will be my last.”

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For years now, Twitter has been peppered by criticism for its failure to combat or—some would argue—even fully acknowledge the scale of the racism, sexism, and homophobia on its micro-blogging service. On Monday, the struggling company’s vice-president of engineering, Ed Ho, said that “long overdue” changes to Twitter would be coming that will supposedly help to tackle harassment, with progress promised “in days and hours, not weeks and months.”

Feminists, minority groups, and activists have complained for years that they aren’t afforded due tools and protection from hate speech being spewed on the site, and it’s not unknown for prominent figures to be temporarily or permanently hounded from Twitter by hordes of trolls acting during, for example, the GamerGate controversy, or more recently in support of Donald Trump’s campaign for the US presidency.

After several half-hearted and unsuccessful attempts to allow victims of online abuse to report hate speech, and seemingly with no end in sight to what appears to be a growing problem with neonazi abuse, Twitter says it is finally throwing its weight behind the problem.

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Titles for Star Wars movies must be like buses; you wait ages for one and then they come along in a clump. Last week we learned that Episode VIII—which arrives in December—will be called Star Wars: The Last Jedi. That film will be followed in 2018 by a Han Solo origin story, and thanks to Chris Miller’s Twitter feed, we have a name:

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— Chris Miller (@chrizmillr) January 30, 2017

Miller is directing the movie alongside Phil Lord; the duo were previously responsible for the (excellent) Lego Movie. And as we discovered last August, Adam Ehrenreich is expected to star as Han Solo, possibly in more than one film. Star Wars: Red Cup might be somewhat of an inside joke; after all, the eponymous drinking vessel is made by a company called Solo. And it could just be a working title for now, the way Return of the Jedi was filmed under the moniker Blue Harvest. Then again, that was done to confuse fans hungry for news in the days before the Internet, and Miller’s clapperboard does still have Star Wars written on it.

Should Miller’s choice of words—Han First Shot—be taken as an undoing of George Lucas’ infamous decision to retcon so many childhoods with his Star Wars special edition? After all, that change in dynamic between Greedo and Han Solo fundamentally changed the nature of the galaxy’s favorite, scruffy looking nerf herder. Rogue One, the first Star Wars spin-off movie to emerge post-Disney, set a darker, more adult tone than the mainline movies, something Solo’s backstory would probably need.